Hi James, Guru Q60s, big brother of the better known Q10’s.
I’ve owned two pairs of Q10s and Guru are amazing speakers, majoring on timing and being coherent at any level and tight tuneful bass.
Q60s on home dem but will be going back as whilst impressive over a longer period of time I’ve found the Q10’s to offer a more balanced performance in my setting.
The Q60s were an expensive speaker in their day and need more upstream of them to get the best from them I’d say.
Hi,
Since 2021, I have been slowly getting together a second system in our place in France. I had my amps 42/110 serviced and have a Marantz CD67SE which I use as a transport into an Auralic Altair G1. I did try this with SL2s. Not wanting at the time to spend a fortune, a friend recommended the wharfedale diamond 220s, which suffice to get the second system up and running.
Now I want something more and am in a position to look at upgrades so the speakers are now priority.
I have the go ahead to demo the Harbeths so just have to organise a suitable time. Probably not until July though.
There has been a previous thread with us folk with hearing issues and hearing aids associated with hifi listening… a while back now but worth revisiting. Can’t remember who started the thread, HH has a better memory than me!
The construction techniques here have some peculiarities. The insulation and panels are separate rather than a combined SIPs. Amounts to the same thing but the outer panneling and inner insulating panels are applied as separate layers. From different suppliers even. In this case, the insulating layer is imported from Germany. I’d have to dig out the plans covering that aspect. I’ve not thought about that detail since I signed off on the insulation last July.
Not as bad as I thought but I’m sure will be challenging with some complex full scale stuff. The placement possibilities and degrees of freedom are awesome. A low 2.2m ceiling that I have to live with. All solid surfaces so no worries there. Above me there is polystyrene re-enforced with a generous layer of concrete above it, self-levelling liquid anhydrite screed plus thick Italian tiles 60x60cm
Tried firing across now and I can create an equilateral triangle with sides of 3.5m and still have 1m off the wall behind. Much clearer and balanced sound overall with massive sound stage and pretty nice fast clean bass. Listening to Stanko suspended nights clear as a bell, not bad. Speakers slightly toed in and 90cm from corners. Now trying Haydn’s last London symphony Harnoncourt and feels a little lightweight but it’s all there to me ears